Tag Archives: Winning Hearts & Minds

The Patheticism of U.S. Sanctions on North Korea

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“I can’t help but wonder whether the North Korean people are more afraid of their government than Samsung, Nike, and other big businesses are scared of the U.S. government. I also can’t help but wonder whether it matters to a North Korean whether he dies from North Korean socialist policies or U.S. sanctions policies.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/12/patheticism-u-s-sanctions-north-korea/

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Duterte tells Philippine soldiers to shoot female rebels in their vaginas

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“Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte last week told soldiers to shoot female rebels in their genitals, the latest in a series of violent, misogynistic remarks.  Since he came to power on a promise to kill all the country’s drug users and dealers, thousands of Filipinos have been shot dead, prompting the international criminal court to open a preliminary examination.”

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-duterte-female-rebels-20180212-story.html

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Kansas rallies behind teacher facing deportation after 30+ years

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“Mr Jamal, a 55-year-old Bangladeshi-born chemistry professor, was arrested on his front lawn nearly two weeks ago by immigration officials as he stepped out to drop his daughter to school in Lawrence, Kansas.  His wife and other two children rushed out but even before they could say goodbye, he was led away in handcuffs.  He has been moved from a detention centre in Missouri to a facility near El Paso, Texas, close to the border. All three of Mr Jamal’s children – seven, 12 and 14 – are US citizens and his wife has a medical condition that limits her mobility, making him the sole provider for the family.”

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43034784

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How ICE Works to Strip Citizenship from Naturalized Americans

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“Contesting the cases can cause a defendant to rack up tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars of legal bills — forcing those without means to capitulate early in the legal process. Once someone is convicted and stripped of their citizenship in civil proceedings, they revert back to their original status, usually a permanent resident. Then, depending on the circumstances, the individual is deportable.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/ice-denaturalization-naturalized-citizen-immigration/

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16 Years Ago, Bush Opened the Floodgates to Torture at Guantánamo

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“February 7, 2002 remains a grim day in the modern American calendar, and one that, I think, should be marked every year, along with other key dates — August 1, 2002, for example, when the ‘torture memos,’ seeking to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, were issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, written by John Yoo and approved by his boss, Jay Bybee, and December 2, 2002, when Donald Rumsfeld approved his own specific torture program for use at Guantánamo, which was initially intended for use on just one prisoner, Mohammed al-Qahtani, but which ended up being used on one in six of the prisoners, according to a former interrogator who spoke to Neil A. Lewis for a New York Times article in January 2005.”

Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/07/exactly-16-years-ago-george-w-bush-opened-floodgates-torture-guantanamo

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An Open Letter to the FBI

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“A tax-paying citizen who loved America could not trust you and fled for his life because he knew you could murder him and get away with it. Let that sink in.  When Finicum got out of his vehicle with his hands up, within seconds you gathered around him and shot him in the back. Moments later you shot rounds of ammunition into Finicum’s truck with scared women inside screaming for help- trying to surrender. You threw gas cans inside the vehicle. Is this how you do it now? Are you sincerely okay with this?”

Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/02/kate-daley/an-open-letter-to-the-fbi/

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Trigger-happy NSA guards hospitalize three men who took a wrong turn

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“The NSA headquarters is located just off a major Washington-area highway and investigators believe it is possible the three men made a wrong turn.”

Read more: http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180214/NEWS07/180219602

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Blowback: How Torture Fuels Terrorism Rather Than Reduces It

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“From Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. has engaged in brutal and violent abuse toward detainees suspected of terrorism — despite the fact that such brutality and abuse is what may have motivated many of those detainees to begin with.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/torture-terrorists-guantanamo-abu-ghraib/

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George W. Bush doesn’t deserve the media’s efforts at rehabilitation

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“George W. Bush should have permanently taught Americans that presidents are most dangerous when seeking to con the nation into unnecessary wars — for democracy or any other pretext.  Unfortunately, the recent media consecration of Bush may be expunging that bitter lesson.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/374081-george-w-bush-doesnt-deserve-the-medias-efforts-at-rehabilitation

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The End of the Tea Party

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“The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 permanently erases those spending limits, while authorizing far more spending than would ever have been considered while the Tea Party movement held sufficient political influence to stop it. As a result, the U.S. government’s budget deficits for 2018 and 2019 appear set to grow the levels that the Congressional Budget Office had projected for its more realistic alternative fiscal scenario following President Obama’s spending proposals back in 2010.”

Read more: http://www.mygovcost.org/2018/02/12/the-end-of-the-tea-party/

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